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>Configuration overview</TITLE
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TITLE="Alternative meanings of console"
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>Chapter 1. Introduction</TD
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NAME="INTRO-CONFIG"
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>1.4. Configuration overview</H1
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><P
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>There are five major steps to configuring a serial
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console.</P
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CLASS="PROCEDURE"
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TYPE="1"
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>Optionally, the <SPAN
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CLASS="ACRONYM"
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>BIOS</SPAN
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> may be configured
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to use the serial port.</P
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>If needed, the boot loader may be configured to use the
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serial port.</P
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>The Linux kernel must be configured to use the serial port
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as its console. This is done by passing the kernel the
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<TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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>console</TT
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> parameter when the kernel is started
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by the boot loader.</P
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>The <SPAN
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CLASS="APPLICATION"
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>init</SPAN
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> system should keep a
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process running to monitor the serial console for logins. The
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monitoring process is traditionally called
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<SPAN
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CLASS="APPLICATION"
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>getty</SPAN
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>.</P
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>A number of system utilities need to be configured to make
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them aware of the console, or configured to prevent them from
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disrupting the console.</P
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>Examples in this <I
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>HOWTO</I
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<SPAN
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>Red Hat Linux</SPAN
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> versions
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<SPAN
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>7.1</SPAN
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> through to
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<SPAN
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>7.3</SPAN
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> (released 2001 through to 2002).
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The maintainer would appreciate updates when new versions of
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<SPAN
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CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
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>Red Hat Linux</SPAN
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> appear. The maintainer
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would very much appreciate examples for <SPAN
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CLASS="SYSTEMITEM"
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>Linux</SPAN
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> distributions that are dissimilar
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to <SPAN
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>Red Hat Linux</SPAN
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>; particularly
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<SPAN
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CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
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>Debian GNU/Linux</SPAN
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> and
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<SPAN
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CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
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>Slackware Linux</SPAN
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>. All contributors are
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acknowledged in <A
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HREF="about-credits.html"
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>Section G.3</A
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>.</P
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>Alternative meanings of <SPAN
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>"console"</SPAN
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